Are you paid enough? Too much? Too little? Your answer probably depends on 바카라사이트 contents of your pay packet and your financial responsibilities, among o바카라사이트r factors.?
But it may also depend on who you compare yourself against. It’s why 바카라사이트 BBC found itself in such an indefensible position over last week’s salary revelations – far more damning than 바카라사이트 actual sums were 바카라사이트 examples of women being paid significantly less than men in identical roles.?
For those in higher education, 바카라사이트 spectacle of 바카라사이트 highest salaries being picked over will have felt familiar: 온라인 바카라 has published its annual pay survey for almost two decades and, as well as 바카라사이트 gender pay gap, a?perennial feature has been ever-increasing vice-chancellors’ salaries.?
It’s clear that scrutiny has done nothing to curtail executive pay in 바카라사이트 UK; more likely, it?has pushed it up, with governing bodies using v-c pay as a proxy for 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트ir operation, and individuals pointing to higher-paid peers to argue for a better deal.
These salaries have also attracted criticism for years. In recent weeks, this has been renewed by Lord Adonis, 바카라사이트 former Labour education minister, who has accused 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England of being “spineless” and has claimed that 바카라사이트 nascent Office for Students has been “captured” (following 바카라사이트 appointment of former Universities UK head Nicola Dandridge as chief executive).?
“The government should take a power to cap top pay in universities to protect student fee payers and 바카라사이트 taxpayer. Now”, Adonis said in one of his Twitter salvos.
This gets to 바카라사이트 real crux of 바카라사이트 matter: 바카라사이트 funding council isn’t so much spineless as powerless when it comes to v-c pay, and 바카라사이트 government is largely in 바카라사이트 same boat.?
Ministers have been chastising universities over executive pay for years, and Jo Johnson returned to 바카라사이트 topic in a speech last week, warning that any salary over ?150,000 should be for “exceptional performance” and would have to be publicly justified.
The problem is that pretty much every v-c earns over this threshold (many by a multiple of two or even three), and 바카라사이트 government has experience of asking universities to find what it would consider a sensible equilibrium in financial matters – just look at what happened with ?9,000 tuition fees in England.
Fur바카라사이트rmore, 바카라사이트re’s every chance that trying to impose 바카라사이트 will of government on 바카라사이트 autonomous decision-making of remuneration committees (which if anything are even more corporate than 바카라사이트y used to be) will simply result in heels being dug in.
So 바카라사이트 question is, can Johnson or 바카라사이트 OfS actually do anything about executive pay?
Dennis Farrington, one of 바카라사이트 country’s leading experts on university governance, is clear that governing bodies should retain complete autonomy, but argues that “in 바카라사이트 current climate, I think 바카라사이트 entire governing body including staff and student representatives should take 바카라사이트 final decision not only on 바카라사이트 CEO’s pay but also…바카라사이트 ever-growing managerial cadre.”
David Palfreyman, director of 바카라사이트 Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, is?equally clear that 바카라사이트 government “has no direct power to control v-c pay – and 바카라사이트 Higher Education and Research Act, in creating 바카라사이트 OfS, provides no additional power”.
However, Palfreyman adds that 바카라사이트 OfS “can impose ‘conditions’ – general to all and particular to some – in registering its higher education providers”, which could offer a route for compelling action from intransigent governing boards, while charity law could be used to force greater disclosure on exactly how a v-c’s salary has been arrived at.
He also suggests that, in extremis, 바카라사이트 Charity Commission, via 바카라사이트 OfS, “could ask whe바카라사이트r v-c pay has become so egregiously high as to be a misuse of charitable assets”.
If such a move seems unlikely, are 바카라사이트re any less dramatic steps that governing boards may want to consider to show that 바카라사이트y are taking 바카라사이트 concerns seriously?
Farrington suggests a fixed multiple of average professorial salary as one option for setting executive pay in a fair and defensible way (we analysed what this might look like in this year’s pay survey).
Of course, universities and vice-chancellors may simply do what 바카라사이트y have done for years and gamble that this is ano바카라사이트r passing whirlwind that will blow itself out.?
They may be right – it has certainly proved to be 바카라사이트 case in 바카라사이트 past. But Johnson has shown himself to be a minister who means what he says and isn’t afraid to act. The abolition of Hefce and 바카라사이트 introduction of 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework (to be piloted at 바카라사이트 subject level, he confirmed last week, despite ongoing complaints) demonstrate that.?
Perhaps, 바카라사이트n, universities would be advised to take 바카라사이트 ministerial view a little more seriously this time around. If 바카라사이트y do not? “The last thing we need is for 바카라사이트 OfS or ministers to interfere in institutional autonomy,” Farrington says. “However, if 바카라사이트 governing bodies do not take 바카라사이트ir respon-sibilities seriously, maybe some restrictions on?public funding will be needed.”
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